Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1887-07-25

and heart and sympathy, and under the
benediction and perpetual presence Of
Christian minister.
But remark again, the religious dis
course of the future will be
AN AWAKENING SERMON.
From altar nail to the front door step un-
der that sermon an audience will get up
aud start for heaven. There will be in il
many a staccato passage. Ii will not he a
lullaby; il will he battle charge. Men
will drop their sins for they will feel the
hot breath Of pursuing retribution on the
back of their necks. II will be symps-
thetic with all the physical distresses rs
we'll As the spiritual distresses of the
world Christ not only preached but He
healed paralysis, and He healed epilepsy,
and He healed the dumb and the blind and
ten lepers.
That religious discourse of the future
will be an everyday sermon, going right
down into every mans life, and il will
teach him how to vote, how TO bargain,
now to plough, how to do any work he is
called to, how to WELD trowel and pen
and pencil and yanistick and plane. And
it will teach women how TO preside
over their households, and how to
educate their children, and how To initiate
Miriam and Esther and Nashti and Eu-
nice, the mother of Timothy. and Mary,
the mother of Christ; and those women
who on Northern aud Southern battle6elds
were mistaken by the wounded for angels
of mercy fresh from the throne of God.
Yes have 10 tell you that the religious
discourse of the future will be reported
sermon. If you have any idea that print
ing was invented simply TO print secular
books, and stenography and photography
were contriyed merely to set forth secular
ideas, you are mistaken. The printing
press is to he the great agency OF gospel
proclamation. 1t is high time that good
men instead Of denouncing the press, en-
ploy it to scatter forth the gospel of Jesus
Christ. The vast majority OF people in our
cities do not come TO church, and nothing
but the printed press can reach them and
call them to pardon, and life, and peace,
and heaven.
SO cannot understand
THE NERVOUSNESS OF SOME
of my brethren of the ministry. When
they see newspaper man coming in they
say: Alas, there is n reporter" Every
added reporter is ten thousand. fifty thou
sand, hundred thousand immortal souls
added to the audi..r- r. The time will come
when all the village, town and city news
papers will reproduce the Gospel Of Jesus
Christ, and sermons preached on the Sab
hath will reverberate all around the world,
and. some by type, and some by voice, all
nations will be evangelical.
The practical bearing of this is upon
those who are engaged in Christian work,
not only upon Theological students and
young ministers, but upon all who preach
the Gospel, and all who eXhort in meet
ings and that is all of you il you are doing
your duty. Do you eyhort in prayer
meeting? BE short and be- spirit
ed. DO you teach in the Bibe-class?
Though you have To study every night be
interesting. DO yOu acCost people on the
subject OF religion in their homes or IN
public places? Study adroitness and use
common sense. The most graceful and
most beautiful thing on earth il the re-
ligion of Jesus Christ, and il you awkardly
present it, it is defamation. We must
do our work rapidly, and we must do it
effectively. Soon our time for work will
be gone.
A DYING CHRISTIAN
took ont his watch and gave il To a friend
and said: Take that watch, have M
MORE use for it,; time is ended for me and
eternity begins" Oh, my friends when
our watch has ticked away for us the last
moment, and our clock has struck for us
the last hour, may it be found we did our
work well, that we did it in the very
best way, and whether we preached
Gospel in pulpits or Taught Sab
bath classes, or administered
to the sick as physicians, or bargained as
merchants, or plead the, law ~ attorneys,
or were busy AZ artisans, or as husband
men, or as mechanics, or were like Martha
called to give a meal TO hungry Christ
or like Hannah to make coat for a
prophet, or like Deborah 10 rouse the
courage Of some timid Bsrak in the Lord =
conflict, we did our work in such a way
that it will stand the test of the J Judgment
And in the long procession of the redeemed
that march around the throne. may il he
there are many there brought 10 God
through our instrumentality and in whose
rescue we are exultant.
But, y you unsayed, wait not for that
religious discourse Of the future. II may
come after your Obsequies. II may come
after the stone cutter has chiselled our
name on the slab, fifty years before. DO
not wait for great steamer Of the Cunard
or White Star Line IN take yOn of the
wreck, but hail the first craft with how
ever low a mast and however small q
hulk, and however poor q rudder, and
however weak captain. Better q dis
abled schooner that comes upin time than
full-rigged brig that comes up after you
have sunken.
Instead Of waiting for that religious dis.
course at the futnre-it may I've forty, fifty
years off-take this plain invitation Of a
man who. to have given you spiritual
eyesight, would be glad TO be called the
spittle by the hand Of Christ put on the
eyes of blind man, and who would con
slider the highest compliment Of the service,
if at the close five hundred men should
start from these doors, saying: Whether
be be simmer or no. | know not This
one thing know, whereas was blind,
now see"
Swifter than shadows over the plain,
quicker than birds in their autumnal
fight, hastier than eagles 90 their pray,
HE you TO a sympathetic Christ The or
chestras Of heaven have already strung
their instruments TO celebrate your rescue
"And many were the voices around the throne
Rejoice, for tie Lord brings hack his own"
STILL A PRIEST.